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LI IE it A It Y It EVI The ItOLY BIBLE, oewly Translated from the Origins' Hehrew, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By . JoHNT Atithnr of " The History of all Religions."—• .I.oxes.m AN, HURST, REES, 0:131E and 13Itowlg, Paternoster- TOW ; BUDD and CALNIN, P411.11:11.1. In a former Paper we noticed the Neve latinn Trans (f ' fors BIBLE from t! le original Hebrew wily, by Mr. .1 lint.LAmy, and as this Work is -c.ilculated to in.preis the tnind with increased ve neritiou for Tile BIBLE, and begins to excite much inquiry, it may he tigteeabl'e to our Re-3de► s if we occasionally, on a Saturday, select a few passages, and contrast them with the same pas sages in the Received Translation, By these means the learned and serious reader may then draw a conclusion, and form some judgment RS to What support and attention ought to be paid :hy every true Member of the Establishment to - Ole arduous and highly important labours of the Author. In the Intrwlnction we find that some of the TrAnslatioms given by Mr. BELLAMY have met with opposition from certain ynarters, where it has 'been attempted to shew that he has been mista'ken in many of his Translations. Ile has obviously thought it his dttty, for the satisfaction of his revlers, and for the cane of truth, to meet these objections fait!) , and openly., and has incor porated 'them in his Introduction to the Book of GENESIS. By a perusal of them, learned and in telligent Readers will perhaps be induced to think that such objections have been made in manifest ignorance, and that all that has been said by these objectors, like the gourd of JO NAH, which Caine sip in a night, and perished in a night, falls to the gt °tin& • One of the passages which has occasioned much controversy is in 2 Kings, v. 18—: New Translation. Received Translation. In this thing will Jehovah In this thing the Lord pat , pardon thy servant ? When ti.ti thy servant, that when env < orl came to the horse of ins tuastercometh to the house Rimmon to -worship there, of 11i:union to worship there, then he leaned on my hand, and he lean4h on my hand, and I myself worshipped in and I how mpelf iu the Louse the house of 11.i:union : since I of Rimmon ; when I bow myself worshipped in the down myself in the house of house of Itilmnon, will Jeho- Itimmon, the Lord pardon vah, I pray thee, pardon thy thy srvant in this thing. servant in this thing In confirmation of the new Translation, it is shewn that the verbs, which in the received Translation are rendered in the future time, are in the Hebrew in the put time. It has been said, that on the part of Naaman, " it was an anxious enquiry for direction in duty." We quote a part of the answer to this injudicious observa tion : " Is it possible to suppose that the prophet could direct a worshipper of the God of Israel, es a mark of his duty, to bow before the idoi Itint mon ? According to the authorized version, it is an indulgence that Naaman is made to ask—an indulgence to cotr . alit sin—an indulgence to break the cotnmand of God—au indubjence to do that which the Hebrews were brought out of Egypt to destroy—au indulgence to render the miraculous cure of no effect, which was to break in pieces tbe idolatry of Syria—in short, an indulgence to insult the God of Israel, by sheaving that his pro phet directed Naaman to bow before the idol Rimmon; and thus to favour the enemies of God." References, however, are given to. some of our most eminent scholars, who have translated the verbs in this verse as they stand in the Hebrew, viz. in the past time. In the xxivth page, these remarks are thus concluded : " Now, when we consider that the cure of Naaman was done by the power of God, to break in pieces the idolatry of Syria, that it had this effect on Naaman, and that it he had returned to his land making the same profession of idol wor ship, although he had experienced this great cure, as he acknowledged by the hand of the God of Israel, instead of she►ving the Syrian nation the folly of depending on idols, such a proceeding on the part of Naaman, sanctioned by the prophet of God, would have more firmly established the people of Syria in the worship of idols. The Common Translation of this passage can never be allowed by any sound grammarian." This passage,, ac cording to the New Translation, has been preach ed from by many of the Clergy, and the hearers have been delighted to find that the Scripture did not contradict itself, and that in no period of the sacred history vas any person granted an indul gence by tl►e servants of God to commit sin. New Tran.r!atien. Received Translation. 1. Sam. xix. 9. Now the spirit of Jehovah And the evil spirit from the was displeased with Saul. Lord was upon Saul. The New Translation spews, that the word which in the Received Translation is rendered evil, means displeased, as in Psalm xxvii. 5. and that there is no authority whatever for the word from, which has been injudiciously put in by the Translators. Received Traralati9n. New Translation. e'er. 24. Then he took off his gar- And he stript cloathes Iment, and prophesied also the also, and prophesied before same before the face of Samuel in like manner, and Samuel, but he supplicated lay down naked all that day, artfully, all that day, and all and all that night. tilat night. Mr. BELLAMY has been charged with having mistaken paarum, sublil, for gnaarom, naked: But lie replies---" I have not been mistaken the words gvaarum, and gnaarom. are not differen: riots ; they both mean to be subti/, either with a view to produce good, or with a view 1)1 clrcuni venting the intentions and devices of ot h ers . see ‘ll.t.t . Q. G,ll. I h. 1., tvliere goat:row has the saftte m cati i ng , 1 s mot . xxiii. 22 But these distinctions in the applica tion of the vvord have trot been onderstotA by these Pseudo-liebraists. 'rain which it appears that I have not mistaken the word gnaoruni for gnuarom, but such writers have been mistaken. who have not. understood the tootle of speech which is common inevery language. The serpent was sntnil, because it was the instrometit of evil ; Saul was artful, because he supplicated befote Samuel in hypocrisy, with a design to murder David. A wt,e man who co'eretht shame is prurient, bot the wrath of a foul is presently known. Prov. xii. 16.'' New Translet Received Trairshrtion. 1 Sam. 11. 23. Notwithstaudim4they heart:- Notwithstandin they head:- elm] not to the voice of their ened not unto the voice of father, therefore it pleastil their father, because the Lord Jehovah to cause them to die. would slay them. If the sons of Eli hail known that the Lard would slay thent, for not hearkening to the voice of their tither, as is signified in the common version, they would have hearkened to his in struction. New Trans-Iv/ion. I.a. ti. 10. Received Translation. The heart of tl►is ,people Mahe the heart of this was ►Wade gross, also his e,rs people fat, and • make their heavy, and his eyes were ears heavy, and shut their turned aside; lest he should eyes; lest they see with their sir with his r!tes, and hear eyes, and hear with their with his ears, or his heart ears, and understand with should understand, and re- their hearts, and convert and turn and he heated. be healed. We refer the reader to the article on this pas• sage, in the Introd,ction, p. xxxi. where it is sa tisfactorily proved that God gave no command to the prophet to make the heart of the people fat, to wake thtir ears heavy, and to shut their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and undeastand witit their hearts, and be converted ; but that it was the people, by their stubbornness and infidelity, who made their hearts gross, shut their ears, aunt turned their eyes aside, lest they should see, hear, understand, and be con verted. This passage is quoted by Christ, Matt. xiii. 13. agreeably to the New Translation of the Hebrew. New Translation. Received Trat►slation. iii. 6. Shall evil he in the city Shall evil be in the city and and Jehovah hath not reqiiit- the Lord bath nut dune it ? ud it. Thus does the common version charge God with the commission of evil ; hut the New Trans lation spews the ouimpeachableness of the moral justice of God. Yet it appears that there are persons who are dating enough to say, because it hi() said in the commou version, that God is the author of evil. Those who will not acknow ledge the superiority of the New Translation of this passage, must be left to their own refl...c. dons ; they will nut afford them auy real satis faction. New Translation. J cr. iv. 10. Received Translation. Then I said, Ah, Lord God, Then I said, Ah Lord de surely thou bast greatly de- horah, truly to desolation, ceived this people, and Jeru- thou bast desolated this prro salem, saying, Ye shall have ple, even to Jerusalem, for peace; whereas the sword saying, Peace shall he among reacheth to the soul. you; but the sword reacheth to the soul. _ Ch. xx. S. 0 Lord thou bait deceived Thou bast perswaded me, roe., and I was deceived : thou 0 Jehovah, thus I was prr art stronger than I, and hait. swaded ; strenKthen thou me, prevailed fur thuu bast prevailed. Thus in the common version, God is charged with having greatly deceived the people and Je rusalem, in saying, they should have peace. Bur it appears that the word which is translated de ceived, means desolated. See where the sane sense is given, Isaiah, xxxvi. 26. To lay ease. The author then says, p. xxxiv. " Thus it appears that it was not God that deceived the people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace shall be among you but it was God who caused the desolation even to Jerusalem, because the false prophesiers had declared, in contradiction to the word of God by the prophet Jet culla!), that the hild Should have peace. Therefore God suffered the desolation of the people, because they believed the false pro phets,for saying peace shall be among you." .Ateit , Translatiwt. Isaiah, ix. 3. Received Translation. Thou bast multiplied the Thou bad multiplied the nation, and not. increased the nation, and not increased the joy; they joy before thee ac- joy : they have rejoiced he cordin; to the joy in harvest, fore thee according to the joy and as men rejoice when they in harvest ; accordingly as divide the spoil. they rejoice when they di vide the spoil. We quote the following note-;—" This passage is one of those which has perplexed commenta tors, in all ages, for the last clause plainly con tradicts the first. The first states that God had multiplied the nation, but that he had not in creased the joy; the second, that they re joiced before him as men who return from the harvest, or as those rejoiced who divided the spoil. This error, which has been coped into all the European Translations flout the versions made in the first ages of the Christian Church, has been made by the hnpro per translation of the Hebrew word saanichou, which is translated as the present tense of the word joy, viz. they joy. But it is the third per son plural incur, in the conjugation Ka!, and should . be translated as the same word is in Psalm xxxv. 15. viz. in time past, to which the Prophet refers, they rejoiced. Thus we shall have a true translation of this hitherto controverted and contradictory passage, perfectly consistent with the grammar of the language, without sub stituting the daring and ungrammatical jute:To :Jai-ion of the Masoretic commentators, which has been resorted to by writers of this description, to the present day. " '[bus it appears that the Hebrew, when un derstood, is the unpolluted fountain, the pure re cord of the will of God to man. Who is not the author of evil, Amos. iii. 6. Who did not com mand the prophet to make the heart of the people their ears heavy, to shut their eyes, lest they should see, and hear, and be converted. lea. vi 10 Who never repented that he made man on the earth. Gen. vi. 6. Nor did the Prophet charge the God of H o liness with deception, saying, as it is said in the vulgar version—Air Lord God, surely thou host greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem. Jer. iv. 10.-0 Lord that host deceived me, and I :as deceived. All as inconsistent with the ori ginal H e brew, as they are with the HOLINEiti, JUSTICE, AND INIERCY OF GOD." THE SUN. 801,0-1 QUIS DICEHE [SUM .AIiDEAT ? LONTDON, S.ITUUDAY, JULY 25, 1818. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Wednesday last. They tont inue silent respecting the Conspiracy. General CANUEL made his ap pearance in the Court of the Tribunal of Correc tional Police on Tuesday, the day fixed for the coining an of his cause against 11.1. M. de SENN E• VILLE and FARVIER, for calumny (with reference wall:: late affair at Lyons), and who had al,o lodg ed a complaint for calumny against the General . The General addressed the Court at considerable length, complaining of the steps taken against bins with respect to a charge (falsely made as he contended) of conspiracy, and particularly of the seizure of his papers. He demanded, under tile circumstances in which he was placed, especially as his papers had been seized, that the cause be fore the Court should be postponed, pledging himself in the meantime without delay to make his appearance before the Juge d'lnstruc amt. M. I\IAUGUIN, the Advocate for Col. FAR VIER, objected to the delay demanded, but had no objection to consent if it was not demanded as a right ; and M. Doris!, for M. SRN NEVILLE, op posed it on similar grounds. M. COUTURE, for General CANUEL, insisted that there were seve ral documents amongst the papers of .the Gene ral that had been seized %gild' were essential to his prosecution of this cause. After some observations in reply from M. MAUGUIN, the Court . deliberated, and agreed to postpone the case till Saturday the Ist of August. The fol lowing are Extracts : Palm, JULY 22.—Yesterday the King pro menaded, at seven o'clock in the morning, iu the little Park of St. Cloud. His Mojesty afterwards transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu. The harvest is far advanced in Picardy, and is in general satisfactory. There will be a great produce of apple 3 both in Normandy and Picardy. " General Donnadien reviewed, on the 15th, at Clermont Ferranti, the 4th Swiss Regiment. " The Ex-Couvention Gamier de Saint es is dead in America. " The celebrated General Castanos died at Barcelona early in the present month. FIVE PEa CENTS. Tuesday 7Gf. GO c. DEFERRED STOCK of the V.d 1%1 arch, 1817, B7 f. 20c. e2d S/pt. 1817, B 5l. 20e. 22i1 March, 1318, 8.1 f 40c. • - " VIENNA, JULY B.—The Chief . of the General Staff of the Army, the Baton de Peschaska, is gone to Milan, by order of the Supreme Council of War, to inspect the fortresses of Upper Italy, and to adopt the measures prescribed by the act of the Congress of Vienna respecting their state of defence, particularly the fortresses on the Po. Piacenza is to have a permanent gallium of Aus trian troops, together with troops of the Duchy." The Flanders Mail, which arrived yesterday, brings an account of the meeting between the Princess MARIA LOUISA, or, as she is now styled, the Archduchess of PARMA, and FRANCIS CHARLES BUONAPARTE, her reputed son.—lt is said, in The Morning Herald of this day, respecting the latter, " we never read (of this boy) without some unea siness, considering the mischief' which may, one day, be produced by the mere use of his name in France." We perfectly agree in this sentiment ; and as there was always a mystery attending the birth of the boy, it ought to be ' ascertained upon the clearest evidence. It is well known that many stories were in circulation in France soon after his existence was announced to the world. It was said that MARIA LOUISA had been delivered of a stillborn child, and that she was imposed upOn by a suppositious offspring, who however was really the child of NAPOLEON by one of his Dearest Relations. As he was capable of every specks of atrocity the story was readily be lieved, and no authentic proof has yet appeared that the boy was actually the issue of MARIE Louisa,. We do not find that in all the plaints of BUONAPARTE, since he has been -?l,a froin MARIA. LoutSA-;--can we a t;le his wife, since his wife was aliVe, and Lad 13° ( - 1 been legally divorced when he married a sec° time ?-- - we tici hot find, we say, that in all the a rs ' plaints of this mane he expresses the least desire ~,of holding any commerce with MAutA Louis e " °l ' any kiwi of concern for the son. It was necessary •• e for him to have a male-succes so r w hile be esu r r a the Throne of France, but not* that it is IQ the hands of the lawful Monarch, in Whose line " I hope it will eternally remain, BUONAPARTE bat' 110 motives of State-policy to induce him to earl. much about an offspring brought forward uf wil political grounds. To conclude, we conceive it is not only an imperative nifty on the pa rt ° France to have the circumstances of this b°Y's nativity fully examined, but of every other forret who may hereafter be disturbed by his pretensions' as be will always be deemed a good instrumo by the JACOBI lqS in their attempts to subver t the regular Government in France, and be ca st into obscurity, or Consigned to death, as soon al he has served their purpose. But the retell' sions of the Boy himself, who may hereafter be as ambitious, crafty, and flagitious as his Fritb er ' ought to be the subiect of deep interest and rri° foresight, as it may reasonably b e f eare d t hat be " [lath maitre that in time will renew breed., " No teeth fur the present."- The unfortunate warfare between SPAI II °(1 0 her Colonies has occasioned the appearance " great numbers of. SPANISH and SPANISPI AS S ' RICAN PIRATES, wbo Wilk:tit scruple attac h 114 Vessels of all Nations, and comink the most ntr°‘ eons robberies and massacres. Our Goveruntenit therefore, has very propetly issued an imp orter't s, Document. It appeared in EVelling PI% of last night, and we should have had some doubt of its authenticity, as it was not communicated I(' THE SUN as well as to the Ev en ing Pape r °l f . lulled to, if we haul not frequently sotT‘led o such acts of censurabl e p ar ti a li t y. THE S t/5 I , ► the only Paper, without one exception, wlrt r• in since its origin under the auspices of t he mortal PITT, has been invariably attached t° d principles of that unrivalled Statesman, a n P r , advocated them with the m os t zealot's P e tit severance. THE SUN, therefore, has a rig 4 to such communicatio n s as G over nment 11 1 1 s u t think proper to submit to the Public' ate sure that the HIGHER OFFICERS of the S ril o i who acted with Mr. P I TT, know and apPr t ' ve e the firm consistency of T HE SuN, and th erelr 'i b r i never would sanction that personal patti' "' o which it has suffered on maw; occasions b e 6 1 0,, the present, and of which o ur c o mplaint %° l ', 01, doubt not, be deemed reasonabl e by that , as° as by all just and liberal people. The Jacobin Writers have affected to con‘ l 7 o Government for Lot pe.mittill the High C crf.O° sir of Westminster to head the Prneessioa oe FRANCIS 13ultottrr, and Conseouchtly r" i f it with not having been sullicienly 0°1'1 1 ; e ts secure the public peace. B u t i t would lo ve -e 6 strange indeed if any of the Civil. AuTi l°3l. fo or p of the State were to form part of " 11° 1i0 1 well be deemed a Jacobin Mob. I t WB5 5 s ree enough that Government to o k effcri ull c o d? by stationing a full portion of Pe'e e i ( has cers to be u:ady in case of alarm, 9 " 1 ,)0 Otte' oc ; a body of Magistrates also were in ance, in case any riotous proceedings 133(1 ye a, curred.—Such measures, we are assured, nil adopted for the security of the PubliC. ---1 0 - t tl a instance in which th e Hi g h C o nstable toten " , ll , similar procession, was that of Sir F. B ug i ris of in 1807 ; hut when it came to the knOvletigtioa the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, ,Vho " 5 o il HIGH STIO , !ARD of 'Westminster, be n°t "5s i,;t t h expressed his disapprobation, but probit"- -e soc i High Constable frinn ever appearing ag ain °li so lo o %% an occasion. We therefore cannot but fee l , i , c g surprize that the High Constable did not rec°P Lo rd 5111 „, this disapprobation and prohibition. NiouTH, who succeeded the Marquis of - -1/t1C 0 S O IS ;e0 HAM, very properly adopted the so ne %Of , having, with his usual prudence and i nre ioto as made full preparations for resisting 13 nY r ted on conduct, which might naturally be e x P ec o olef' the assemblage of so large a multit ude, . e ing their mischievous principles and re''ei l character. jA be ; TUE QUEEN.—We a re extremely " P ' so le c tio or l ing able to say, that the account of the , L 1 1 00 her M a.i ESTY yesterday was of a r" re f Psi' ig nature than it has been several daY gO 5 ° , A lde 1 ,0 was—" Her Majesty has limi a twe— f night, and is easier and better 10-" Y. • 'f; Prince :Regent spent Thursday eve" in o go Peiace - ,. and his Royal Highness went o,er of C lay hist eViniag, The Duke and D u ches s ranee went ti Kew yesterday afteraoulb 1)c -of u ale Yesterday Count INitiNTßit h ad the PPINCE Ii.LuE3T at Carlton-Wie. .6. A..: TIIEA T It I I:A r, ft F "t; isTE Prrfornied 1,47 - st Ni;;Tht. TITrATFIE Roy \t„ ILlN*NtAithET.—The loi , ataineers: Qeta- Sir. Ward,. Hiss Blanchard. After which, Nine Points iifthe Law. Trt ruE ItoVA ' 3TRA NO.—Duet King Artipatliade•i, Queen Katalikda, MiSs Kelly. After Which,ll 14 4 Q7kich was ;tailed, La Perouse. '44 •# For The Outran' and Priowarss or the FBENtrt 12.r.Votti- TroN, see the First PAO. ARatvut)-1 Dohlin, 1 Waterford, 1 Gnerrisey and Jersey, 1 nulland, 1 Priinct, I liambiugh. Sr. JA:fiss.—:Thilitlay at the Banh, Exchequel, East India, and South Sea flouses. IVATER AT LONDON 1111.TDC;F, TO.N101:110W. Morning, s s / taiiiities after 7. 1 Evening, 2.2 nitaates after 8, % ea Di 01 vr t 4„ X'i i i i ll 4 1)e